[Where Gold and Foolish Rites Rule, All Hearts Turn Angry.]
by[Srđan Janićijević]
directed bySrđan Janićijević
A steampunk operetta with live music on stage, where Dickens’ world breathes again raw and unsentimentalized, exposing the machinery behind every tear, every injustice, every rigged game. Gold rules. Rites blind. The poor pay. We just make sure no one looks away.
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[Oliver Twist showed us what Theatre is. The first children’s operetta in Macedonia — nearly two centuries of Dickens translated into live music, Macedonian verse and urgent stagecraft. A dynamic, energetic show that puts all of us — not just the children — on trial for the moral values we’ve forgotten in the race with time.]
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[A super-punk show that slaps you awake to human brutality and greed. Underground in a children’s world — appearing at exactly the right moment, when new generations grow up surrounded by cheap or nonexistent cultural offerings. An authentic aesthetic, atypical directorial vision. A production any major theatre would be proud of.]
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[A children’s show for adults. Such a simple, clean, unpretentious theatrical language — precise metaphors that echo our reality. ‘When I was young I wanted money, and now that I’m older I want even more’ — it rang out from the stage. The children watched breathless. So did the adults. I believe we all felt a little ashamed and decided to be better people tomorrow. Packaged loosely in the spirit of Les Misérables — just enough to get under your skin.]
![[Oliver Twist]](performance_gallery/poster.webp)
